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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: tab and space
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:26:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fzpcihgy.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b5117g$5uc$1@reader.nmix.net

"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:

> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.

By default, Emacs assumes that tab characters are eight columns
wide.  You can frob the variable tab-width to change this.  So by
default, a followed by TAB followed by b is shown as follows:

a       b

And if you set tab-width to 4, the same three characters are shown
like this:

a   b

-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-24 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-16  4:41 tab and space cyrus
2003-03-16 19:14 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-03-24 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]

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